How a little magic can shape your perfect future

Do you believe in magic?
A little while ago I visited, what I would describe as, an 'old curiosity shop'. It was filled with all kinds of interesting objects. But what caught my eye was a tiny, glass bottle with a cork in it, half-filled with sand and with a little, rolled-up, paper scroll inside.

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Intriguingly, the label on the side said 'Wishes jar' and, as I reached inside and unravelled the paper, I read these words:

'Write down your wishes on this scroll

Now sit down quiet and close your eyes.

In a full moon with skies deep blue

Fairies take flight and wishes come true'

As I read, I realised these tiny, magical instructions represented one of the core principles on which I had founded my entire professional life.

Frankl

Viktor Frankl was an Austrian neurologist, psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor.

He was incarcerated throughout the Second World War in a series of concentration camps. He emerged the other side of the experience to write the landmark book 'Man's Search for Meaning' and founded logotherapy, an existential school of psychotherapy.

He told many stories of his terrible times during that period of his life. One, in particular, is a powerful illustration of the enormous power of the human mind and spirit.

A vision

On a cold winter's day in Poland, he recounts, he was being force-marched through a field with a group of other prisoners.

Cold and malnourished, he dropped to his knees. On seeing this, one of the guards began to beat him with a club, yelling at him to get up or face being left there to die.

Frankl struggled to stand, but could not.

In that moment, he says, a vision came to him of himself, not in Poland, but delivering a lecture on the psychology of the death camps, standing before a rapt audience.

In his talk, he saw how he would describe how some prisoners were able to survive this terrible situation psychologically and emotionally better than others. And as he visualised, he says, a miracle happened.

He found the strength to get up and continue walking. He continued to draw on the vision of his post-war speech to tap into an inner strength that allowed him to get through the day.

Nearly 50 years later, Frankl did indeed receive a standing ovation before an audience of 7000, after delivering the exact speech he had visualised during those terrible moments.

Shape your perfect future

Just as Viktor Frankltapped into his vision of the future and reconnected to hope, we can all make a decision to use, or misuse, our enormously powerful imaginations.

You can either choose to shape your perfect future by creating a positive and empowering vision or create a negative, self-limiting image.

The neuroscience of magic

We now understand so much more about our innate brain filters and the power of imagination and focused attention. Our reticular activating system (RAS) means what we focus on is what we move towards.

We can use this information to help us create the goals which can change our lives.

If I could wave a magic wand, what would your perfect life actually look like? Would you have a better job, more money, be fitter or slimmer?

And what would your perfect relationship look like? What would be your the ideal family situation? How many friends would you have? Where would you live?

Human beings are hardwired to be goal focused. Yet how many of us actually take the time to firm up the picture of our ultimate goal, the life we want to live, and the things we want to be remembered for?

The positive power of PInterest

If you're ready to shape your perfect future by tapping into the one of your most incredible resource, your imagination, then try this exercise:

Do you want to be happier and more resilient?
Some people seem to just 'bounce back' no matter what life throws at them.
We can't choose many of life's events but we certainly do have a choice about how we respond.
My passion for mental health began 25 years ago when I suffered postnatal depression and realised the help I needed simply wasn't there.
The pills didn't work. In fact they made things worse. What I really needed was to understand how anxiety, depression and emotional ill health can develop. I needed to learn good 'mind management' skills which would act like a 'psychological inoculation' against future problems.
When I recovered, I made a decision to find out how and why I had become so depressed and made a personal pledge to do something to provide the kind of help for others which I had needed. I wanted to prevent people suffering unnecessarily.
So I embarked on a personal and professional journey and, along the way, developed a brand new approach to health and well-being.
My journey began with four years of traditional counselling training, followed by a postgraduate diploma in psychotherapy. I studied cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) neuro-linguistic programming (NLP), hypnotherapy, coaching and cognitive neuroscience.
I built up 30,000 hours professional experience which I brought together into the new happiness and resilience programme l named 'Fusion.'
I also wrote a book about how to resolve post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), founded a therapeutic coaching charity and trained volunteers to work in this new way. This training programme would later become the nationally accredited Fusion Therapeutic Coaching Diploma and Distance Learning Skills Certificate.
Now...
The journey continues.
Now I want to reveal all my professional secrets about good mind management to as many people as possible through social media and by training Fusion Breakthrough trainers from all over the world.
One of them could be you...
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What if you could experience one day which could actually change your life for good; giving you your own eureka moment; not only helping you create a vision of the life you want to live, but actually give you the real skills to get there and stay there?
Fusion is a tried and tested system which combines the best of psychotherapy and coaching into a powerful new formula for lasting change.
My aim is to help and empower as many people as possible to feel their best, be their best and live their best lives.
Perhaps I could help you too....